Not sure what our cut-off date is precisely, but Maddy will be K age this coming fall. We homeschool, though, so even though she's still preschool, she gets to do K work this year.

(Also, in our state, K is not compulsory, which widens the options considerably. Lots of smaller daycares and preschools can afford to offer a private K program that parents can actually afford too. If we couldn't homeschool next year, that's the route I would try to go. One more year in a smaller environment, at least.)

I had my daughter who was born on December 1 start this last year. She was just so immature that I pulled her out 2 weeks ago! She cried for the first 2 months and it was not fun trying to keep her there. I have already signed her up for next year!

If we are still living here in New Jersey, she starts in September. It's an October 15 cut-off date, so she'll be one of the older kids.

We're hoping to be moved sooner than that, though, to North Carolina. If we manage to pull it off, she'll either start in mid-July (year-round school) or in September. Depends what school she gets in to. The cut-off date in NC is August 31.

At one point we thought we'd be in NC by now, and my husband wanted to explore the possibility of her starting early (last Sept, at age 4 years, 9 months). She's academically advanced, and tall for her age. I was against it, as I do not feel she's particularly emotionally mature. The hoops you have to jump through for early admittance are pretty ridiculous, though, so he let it go. I'm glad - just today in preschool, she had a little crying fit by herself because the rest of the class started circle time without her. She'd been coloring and despite being asked to join the group several times, had ignored the two teachers, so they went forward without her. Yeah, sure, DH, she should be in kindergarten.